DSS Upgrade Checklist
- Make sure to test the following after upgrading a DSS site:
- Calendars
- A-Z index pages
- Media (flash, video players, any other embedded media)
- Navigations
- Links in body copy
- Print-friendly page functionality
- PDF generation:
- If integrated into the site, ensure pages can be saved and generated as PDFs.
- Forms:
- Can they be filled out?
- Submitted without error?
- Receipt of appropriate emails with correct content
- Custom apps, including calculators, Cartella, and third-party applications
- Site rendering:
- Test least one of each page type, but ideally more.
- Review site for navigation accuracy. Ensure that relevant navigations appear.
- Check site tree redirect components (often called virtual links).
- Evaluate speed and responsiveness.
- External Content, if applicable. This includes static HTML and third-party items.
- Search
- Structured URLs:
- Feature must be turn on in CMS 8.0.
- Make sure Publish As works.
- Ensure the live site works and that all CSS renders, even on multiple levels of sub-pages
- File a report to Ingeniux support if broken links or xIDs remain after following these steps.
- Ingeniux Redirects:
- Check a variety of the redirects defined in your CMS to ensure they still work as expected.
- ACLs:
- For sites that use Windows-based or basic authentication for live-site content protection, this functionality should be migrated to Run-Time Authentication (RTA). Contact Ingeniux support.
- Run-Time Authentication (RTA):
- While not logged in, attempt to navigate to a protected page and confirm that you are redirected to the login page.
- Test invalid credentials: both invalid usernames and invalid passwords
- Test a variety of users who have access to different items.
- Ensure that users can log out.
- Alert Module:
- Submit or enable an alert, and note how long it takes to appear.
- Caching:
- If DSS caching is activated, confirm that the the cache expires at publish.
